SoCal HPLM Group

January 2009 witnessed the inauguration of a new philosophical reading and discussion group: the "Southern California History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Group". This group will provide a forum for discussing new work in the philosophy of logic and mathematics, with special attention paid to the historical development of these fields. Given the research interests and main expertise of the initial members (see below), the primary focus will be on the period from Kant to the present and on works in early analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and neo-Kantianism. But this is not meant in any exclusive sense, i.e., we are open to considering other periods, schools, and thinkers as well.

Initial members:

• Erich Reck, University of California at Riverside
• Clinton Tolley, University of California at San Diego
• Jeremy Heis, University of California at Irvine

Meeting schedule:

We are planning to meet once every 1-2 months, at varying locations (Riverside, Irvine, San Diego, etc.). Meeting dates, locations, and corresponding readings, if there are any, will be announced on this website. If you are interested in participating, please send us an e-mail here.

Upcoming Meeting:

• TBA

Past Meetings:

• January 27, 2010, 11am-1pm, UC Irvine, LPS Department—discussion of a paper by Jeremy Heis, "Frege, Lotze, and Boole"

• December 4, 2009, 12-2pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—presentation by Gila Sher, "The Foundations of Logic, Logical Consequence & Logical Constants"

• November 14, 2009, 2-4pm, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena—talk by André Carus, entitled "History and the Future of Logical Empiricism"

• May 22, 2009, 3-5pm, UC Irvine, Department of Philosophy—colloquium talk by Clinton Tolley, "Kant and Frege on the Place of Subjectivity within Logic"

• May 7, 2009, 2-4pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—presentation by Erich Reck, "Carnapian Explication and its Rivals"

• March 16, 2009, 10-12am, UC Irvine, LPS—presentation by Georg Schiemer, "Carnap's Early Semantics: Models, Model Extensions, and Analyticity"

• February 25, 2009, 3-5pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—colloquium talk by Jeremy Heis, entitled "Concepts from Kant to Frege"